artsrichmond
    
June  Newsletter

A glorious June for art, music,
drama and fun

There are three big events locally to enjoy in June There's the Hampton Court Festival, with its splendid programme of international artists over most of the month (3 to 21 June) – for more information it's best to go to the website www. hamptoncourtfestival.com; there's the delightful ARThouse Open Studios Festival from 20 to 29 June, organised by the borough's art team, which give you the chance to visit artists' studios and see (and buy) the work of 121 local artists and craftspeople, as well as 55 arts students, in 56 venues - where the creativity happens (020 8831 6000 and information centres); and there's the Twickenham Carnival, The Colours of the World, on Sunday 15 June, with its parade along the Twickenham riverside starting at noon, great range of activities to have fun with the family, and the colourful finale in the grounds of Orleans House Gallery, with young people, community groups and schools performing alongside professional musicians, dancers, actors and visual artists to deliver a wonderful celebration of Twickenham (020 8831 6000) .

Art

There's a lot more on locally this June as well. Sticking with pictures and all forms of artistic expression to look at, the Fountain Gallery at East Molesey (just across the bridge from Hampton Court) has works by Adrienne Dangerfield, Jim Woodman, Lin Osborn and Paul Baden from 26 May to 8 June, by Richenda Court from 10-22 June, and by Christine Savage, Jeremy G Hicks, Corynna Jeudwine, Annie Hetherington and Giolia Zordan from 24 June to 6 July – a fantastic range of works in different forms over the month (020 8941 5865).

Distinguished local artist Kimm Stevens is exhibiting at the Mackenzie Gallery, 80 High Street, Teddington, from 30 May to 10 June (020 8977 0080), and Joe Hurgan is at the Richmond Hill Gallery until 15 June (020 8940 5152).

The Curators' Choice at the Richmond Museum is a golden opportunity to see some of the museum's treasures which are not on open display (020 8332 1141).

At Orleans House Gallery, Future Fashion: a showcoach of British graduate fashion, gives you a chance to see some of the designs and pieces from our internationally renowned young fashion designers (7 June to 24 August), while at the new Stables Gallery in the brilliant new complex there's the ICI Collection of works by the London Disability Arts Forum (until 22 June) and then the homeless charity SPEAR's collection of extraordinary works from the charity's art workshops (26 June-27 July).

At the Riverside Gallery, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond, David Downes, a sufferer from Asperger's Syndrome, is showing his images of buildings and landscapes of Britain. (020 8831 6000).

The Artists@Redlees Studios will be showing their work in their Summer Open Studio in the Redlees Studios and their own studios over the weekend of 20 to 22 June. The exhibitions showcase artwork by over 30 designer-makers as well as fine artists, illustrators and photographers (Redlees Park, Worton Road, Isleworth (www.redlees.org).

The Environment Trust for Richmond upon Thames's June art picnic is on Sunday 15 June on Eel Pie Island, with the topic Boats, on land and water. From 11.00 am until 4.00 pm. Booking essential. More information from 020 8891 5455.

The Landmark Arts Centre's Midsummer Art Fair is over the weekend of 14 and 15 June, 10.00 am to 5.00 pm (020 8977 7558)

The Richmond and Twickenham Photographic Society has regular monthly group meetings, talks, slide shows and exhibitions. The Society meets at St Luke's Kew Community Centre in The Avenue, Kew. 020 8577 0089.

Have you booked for Julian Glover and Isla Blair in Kings and Queens?

This year's Presidents of artsrichmond, Julian Glover and Isla Blair, are planning to give us a great Sunday afternoon's entertainment on Sunday 15 June at 2.30 pm (with buffet lunch beforehand at 12.30 pm at Thai Square) at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond with their performance of Kings and Queens, by Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon. They'll be accompanied by the multi-talented musician Stefan Bednarczyk and introduced by Anne Harvey, who compiled the programme.

Kings and Queens is a light-hearted look at monarchy over the ages, with music, poetry and readings.

Once again there'll be an ultra-good-value buffet lunch before the performance at the nearby Thai Square restaurant at 12.30 pm.

Those who came to the previous buffet lunch with Sir John Tusa and James Naughtie will remember how enjoyable the 'lunch before the event' was, so don't miss out this time!

Tickets for both performance and lunch can be obtained from the Orange Tree Theatre box office, 020 8940 3633. £25 for lunch and performance, £12.50 for the performance alone.

Presidents' garden party at
Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare:

artsrichmond's Summer Garden Parties are great fun: remember those at Rosemary Leach and Colin Starkey's and Michael Frayn and Claire Tomalin's? This year's, hosted by Julian Glover and Isla Blair, will be in the glorious riverside gardens at Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton, on Saturday 19 July. Once again, Pat Starr will be singing with Martin Davison's jazz group as the riverboats go by – another unmissable event. Details in the flyer with the monthly mailing (020 8979 3848 for tickets).

 

The Landmark Arts Centre's Midsummer Art Fair is over the weekend of 14 and 15 June, 10.00 am to 5.00 pm (020 8977 7558)

Music

The Richmond Orchestra's summer concert is on Saturday 21 June at 7.30 pm in the Wathen Hall, St Paul's School, Barnes, with works by Ravel, Berlioz and Chabrier, conducted by Philip Hesketh (020 8547 2695). Kew Sinfonia's summer concert is the next Saturday, 28 June in St Anne's Church, Kew Green, at 8.00 pm, with Haydn, Dvorak, Berlioz and Schumann – guest conductor Tom Seligman (020 8940 1892 and 020 8332 6220).

Also at St Anne's Church is its Sunday afternoon season of music (all at 3.30 pm): on 1 June it's Mozart and Richard Strauss played by violinist Gudrun Edwards and Sally Mays, 8 June Orpheus Papafilippou (violin), an 'outstanding performer' from this year's Richmond Performing Arts Festival; on 15 June another 'outstanding performer' from RPAF, Jack Lambert (piano); on 29 June Mozart, Schubert and others by Anthony Green and Derek Foster (with vibraphone); on 29 June Haruko Seki (piano) with Bach, Gershwin and Ravel (020 8942 2801).

Barnes Choir, conducted by Andrew Charity, is at All Saints Church, East Sheen Avenue, on Saturday 14 June at 7.30 pm with Brahms: Sacred and Secular (020 8940 0949). At Walton on Thames's Riverside Barn, international pianist James Lisney is accompanying 15 year old cellist Joy Lisney, chosen by Carlton Television as 'one of the most likely young people to excel in the new century', in music by Bach and Rachmaninoff on Wednesday 25 June at 8.00 pm (07930 648966).

The Dysart Arms at Petersham's June concert is on Sunday 1 June at 7.30 pm, featuring Philip Achille performing classical chromatic harmonica with pianist Nathan Tinker. Philip is the Young Musician of the Year Tabor Foundation Award Winner and World Youth 2005 Harmonica Champion. On the same bill there's Ham-based Royal College of Music post-graduate student Mayuko Kezuka, who'll be performing a programme including Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and the concert suite from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker (07967 481 625).

The Parish Church of St Richard at Ham has another of its brilliant concerts by Anthony Adkins, international concert pianist and former holder of the Chopin Fellowship who studied at the Academy of Music in Cracow, on Saturday 28 June at 7.30 pm, in aid of the Shooting Star Hospice. Mr Adkins will be performing works by Haydn, Schubert, Schumann, Franck and Ravel (020 8940 9807)

The Eel Pie Club at The Patch, 67 London Road, Twickenham, has a tribute to the late Mickey Waller, one of the greatest rock drummers,with Tom Nolan and the Bluescasters, plus guests, on Wednesday 11 June at 8.30 pm for 9.15 (ish). Then on Wednesday 25 June the 'Kings of Instrumental Rock 'n' Roll', the Flying Padovanis, have a warm-up before supporting The Police in Hyde Park on 29 June (www.ticketweb.co.uk).

The Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington, has the Utah Chamber Artists, an ensemble of 40 singers from Salt Lake City, performing a programme of unaccompanied chamber works on Thursday 19 June at 7.30 pm, and then on Saturday 28 June, also at 7.30 pm, an evening of capella choral delights with 16-piece ensemble, Music Makers, in a repertoire embracing the music of seven centuries.(020 8977 7558).

Also at the Landmark are King Pleasure and the Biscuit Boys: Thursday 5 June at 7.30 pm – Kansas City Jazz and Blues in an exhilarating non-stop stage performance (020 8977 7558).

Drama

The next great musicals in BROS's 100th anniversary celebrations are being performed in sequence at the Hampton Hill Playhouse: from 3-7 June, Flora – the Red Menace, and from 10 to 14 June, Mr Cinders (07817 508 836).

Richmond Shakespeare Society's Youth Theatre is performing Arabian Nights at the Mary Wallace Theatre, Twickenham, between 5 and 8 June (020 8744 0547).

 

OHADS presents Ira Levin's Death Trap from 18 to 21 June at the Hampton Hill Playhouse at 7.45 pm (020 8979 4596), and the Barnes Charity Players are doing Noel Coward's relatively unknown play, Peace in Our Time, marking the 70th anniversary of Neville Chamberlain's famously misquoted statement, from 10 to 14 June at the Kitson Hall, Kitson Road, Barnes at 7.30 pm (020 8878 8670). This is in aid of BCP's chosen charities this year: St Osmund's Primary School's sound system, Barnes Methodist Church's resources for the homeless, and Castelnau Centre's Joint Initiative with Welcare.

At the Richmond Drama School at Richmond Adult College, Parkshot, there's Pericles by one Shakespeare and A N Other (26-28 June; 020 8439 8944) – and near Canterbury on 29 June - and the Saturday proms in the delightful riverside gardens of Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare at Hampton include the Actor's Richmond Centre in Shakespeare for Good or Bad on 7 June and St Mary's Drama Group in More Statues in Shakespeare on 14 June, both at 3.00 pm (020 8979 9426).

Time to book for TOpS's Oliver at Richmond Theatre from Tuesday 8 to Saturday 12 July (0870 060 6651)

Richmond Drama School will also be doing a 60 minute version of A Midsummer Night's Dream at Trumpeters' House in Richmond on Sunday 21 June at a splendid event in support of the Kew-based charity, REACT (Rapid Effective Assistance for Children with potentially Terminal illnesses) (020 8940 2575).

The Orange Tree Theatre finishes its season with a Director's Showcase production, Last Train to Nibroc, by Arlene Hutton, directed by Katie Henry, a trainee director at the theatre (ShowCoach is going to the performance on 4 June). The Orange Tree Theatre also has a Sunday coffee concert with the Allegri String Quartet on Sunday 15

The Orange Tree Theatre's annual Garden Tea Party is on Sunday 1 June at Trumpeters' House, Richmond, from 2.30 pm. Get your tickets from the Orange Tree's box office. (020 8940 3633).

Richmond Theatre's June programme starts with Quartermaine's Terms from Monday 2 June to Saturday 7 June, with Christopher Timothy and Nathaniel Parker. Then from 10 to 14 June there's London Assurance, by Dion Boucicault, and Lenny Henry is on stage from 17 to 21 June – an exclusive one-off show. Grumpy Old Women with Jenny Éclair, Linda Robson and Dillie Keen on just Monday 23 June, 5.00 and 8.30 pm; The Emperor's New Kilt from 25 to 28 June, and Patricia Routledge in Crown Matrimonial from 30 June to 5 July. Box office 0870 060 6651.

Library events

Local historian Paddy Ching is giving an illustrated talk on The Growth of Teddington and Hampton Wick t Hampton Wick Library on Saturday 21 June at 3.00 pm.

Talks and visits

The Friends of Bushy and Home Parks meet on Saturday 7 June for a 'bat walk' with Nigel Reeve, chief ecologist with the Royal Parks, meeting at 8.30 pm at the Teddington Gate. The following Saturday (14 June) is the summer party (details from 020 8287 2748), and on Saturday 28 June there's a walk to Hampton Meadow Lands with Pippa Hyde, meeting at 10,30 am in the garden of the Anglers pub, Teddington Lock (020 8287 2748).

The Cercle Français de Richmond. Thursday 12 June, talk on Frederic Mistral by Mme J.-M.Robinson, followed by AGM Vestry Hall, Paradise Road, Richmond from 7.30 to 9.30 pm (020 8892 6139).

Barnes Literary Society has its summer party, Canapes with Cameo Opera, on Wednesday 18 June at 7.00 pm Old Sorting Office Arts Centre, Barnes Green, booking essential. (www.barnesliterary society.org.uk).

The Richmond Association for the National Trust has an outing to Anglesey Abbey on Saturday 14 June, and a London visit to the Wellcome Collection on Thursday 24 June. There'll be a weekend break to Liverpool from 9-13 October. (020 8979 3089).

The Richmond Museum has a talk by Professor Simon Owens, Head of Strategic Project, Kew Gardens, on Tuesday 10 June, to mark the upcoming 250th anniversary of Kew Gardens in 2009. St John the Divine Church, Richmond, at 8.00 pm (020 8332 1141).

After so much June entertainment, why not work it all off with the Team Adventure Run in aid of the Royal Star and Garter Homes? Richmond Park, Sunday 29 June: 020 8439 8120.